Donald Trump has officially been indicted in
the case involving classified and top secret documents.
This story just broke, Trump said on Truth Social that his attorneys have informed
him that he has been indicted.
I'm pulling up his Truth Social post as we speak.
>> Then let me get in there.
>> Sure.
>> Ladies and gentlemen, we got him, down goes well, hold, it's just an indictment.
He didn't get convicted, he's not going to prison, he could still run for president.
We'll see how it goes, but there has been for years, for
two years straight, a lot of heavy breathing on MSNBC.
It's gonna get indicted, it's gonna get indicted, any second, right?
But finally, you know how slow the Democrats and the Bureaucrats are.
Finally gets invited on the documents case, which I think is one of
the strongest and most important cases against them, so this one is a doozy.
>> Yeah, so obviously, he's already been indicted in a separate
case involving his hush money payments to adult performers.
This is a different indictment, and I do agree that this is a much stronger case.
So let's go to what Trump had to say about it on Truth Social.
So he posted that, I have been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse
in Miami on Tuesday at 03:00 PM.
I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President
of the United States who received far more votes than any sitting president in
the history of our country.
And is currently leading by far all candidates, both Democrat and
Republican, in polls of the 2024 presidential election.
And then he ends that post with an all caps, I am an innocent man,
exclamation mark.
>> [LAUGH] Classic Trump.
So he got the most votes of any person running for president,
except the guy he was running against who got 7 million more votes than him.
Okay, so he kinda left that out, I'm sure he's gonna go back and correct it.
All right, so this is the case that we were telling you about earlier today,
he definitely took the documents.
They were tons of classified, secret, and the most secret documents we
have in American government, top secret documents, okay?
>> Top secret documents that can only be reviewed in specific
government facilities.
>> Yes, and he took them home, the manner in which he took them home is illegal.
The fact that he kept them in Florida after he was president is illegal.
And the most important part is the government asked for them back and
he hid them.
He chose not to give it back when he had an official notice to bring them back.
He hid them several times over,
he used his lawyers to lie to the government that he'd given it back.
It shows intent, it shows malice, it shows that it wasn't an accident,
he did it on purpose.
Every other former official, when they found any kinda documents in their house,
and none of them were anywhere near as classified as these.
They would immediately give it back, including Republicans like Mike Pence, but
Trump refused to give him back.
We now have a story about how one of the documents was our plans
in case we invade Iran, how we were going to invade Iran,
which is an incredibly valuable document.
And apparently he was showing that to people in Bedminster, New Jersey,
not even at Mar a Lago.
It's not at all clear that we've even gotten all the documents back,
it's very possible he's still hiding more documents.
And now, I don't know if the Mark Meadows case is about January 6 or
about this case, but Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff,
has apparently testified to the grand jury.
So that's a pretty devastating situation,
they've got tons of evidence in this case, and it is a very important case.
If it wasn't the President, Democrat or Republican, a normal government
official had done what Trump did, they'd be facing decades in prison.
>> So let's talk a little bit about his very final post,
I'm sure he'll be posting more about this.
He says a lot that I agree with here, actually.
He says that this is indeed a dark day for the United States of America,
I agree with that.
It is a dark day, it's a dark day when it's abundantly clear that
a former leader of this nation potentially committed serious crimes.
We are a country in serious and rapid decline, I agree with that.
But together, we will make America great again.
>> Really, from inside of prison cell, okay.
>> I mean, look, I just want to keep expectations low,
he's not gonna end up in prison, come on.
>> No, so that seems impossible, not because of Trump, but
because of the powerful.
The powerful never go to prison unless they rob from other rich people, right?
Like Bernie Madoff, so we know our gut is screaming to us, for all of us,
he's not gonna go to prison, he's a former president.
Even the guys who claim to hate him, they just want him out of politics.
But they don't wanna actually have him go to prison because that might affect them.
I get it, except, once you go inside a courtroom, it's just the jurors, right?
And then they're gonna need the judges to overturn anything the jurors do, because
the judges are in the establishment, they're among the powerful, right?
So they might overturn something a jury does.
But is a jury gonna see this overwhelming evidence against them and
say that he's not guilty?
I think that's pretty unlikely.
>> Yeah, we're getting more details.
According to ABC News, Trump has been indicted on at least seven charges,
including illegal retention of classified documents,
obstruction, and conspiracy.
After that raid happened, of course, we've reported on this, but just to remind you.
The FBI had seized 13,000 documents from Mar a Lago,
at least 100 of those documents were reportedly marked classified.
And Trump had later been caught on tape discussing a document in his possession.
And noding he couldn't share its contents, as he had no right to declassify
it since leaving office, that was another big story that we shared with you all.
And that admission on tape is pretty brutal to his defense.
>> Because he keeps saying, I could laserize the documents, and
the minute I hold them or touch them or look at them, they become declassified.
But he's on tape with a biographer for maybe Mark Meadows,
where he says, these are classified, and I have them, haha.
Well, so now you know that they were classified and you didn't give them back
to the government, and those were apparently the ones about invading Iran.
And so, look, I've said this before, and now the charges are out,
this is breaking right now, live as we are.
So I haven't had a chance to evaluate all the charges, but
it doesn't look like the biggest thing is in there, which, again, I don't know.
And it would have been amazing if they had found it, but
we'll have to see what they say in court, it could still put it in there.
But to me, the number one thing I was worried about is,
those documents are very valuable.
And he did get millions of dollars from the Saudis through the live golf
tournament.
And his son in law, Jared Kushner,
got $2 billion to invest from the Saudis as soon as they got out of office.
So if he sold the documents, that would be a completely different level.
But right now, based on what we're seeing, it looks like the charges are just about
him taking them home and not giving them back and obstructing justice.